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Democrats Question Whether Biden Should Run Again in 2024
6,823 views Jul 11, 2022 Whispers that President Biden's age make him ill-suited to run again in 2024 have gone public. And some Democrats are stepping into what they perceive as a leadership vacuum.
Nearly two-thirds of Democrats don't want President Joe Biden to be their party's presidential nominee in 2024, a new New York Times and Siena College poll.
The Times and Siena poll, which surveyed 849 registered voters from July 5 to 7, found that a full 64% of Democrats want a new Democratic leader in 2024, with just 26% of Democrats indicating that they want Biden as the nominee for a second term.
The desire for a different Democratic nominee is especially strong among young voters, with 94% of voters under 30 saying they don't want Biden to be the nominee again in 2024.
Of the Democrats who want a different nominee in 2024, 33% cited Biden's age. Biden is 79 and would be 82 if he took office for a second term in 2025, spurring increasingly open concerns about his age and fitness for the job.
An additional 32% of Democrats who want a new nominee cited Biden's job performance in office, with 10% said Biden isn't progressive enough.
"I'm just going to come out and say it: I want younger blood," Nicole Farrier, a preschool teacher and single mother from Michigan, told The Times. "I am so tired of all old people running our country. I don't want someone knocking on death's door."
Just 33% of voters approve of Biden's job performance overall. Biden's approval among Black voters, a key constituency that delivered him the Democratic nomination and the general election, was 62%, the highest rating out of any group. But a higher share of Black voters still wanted a new nominee for 2024 than the share who want Biden to run again.
And Biden's approval among white voters without a college degree, a demographic he heavily sought to win in 2020, is at just 20% in the poll.
